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NCLEX Nutrition

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1. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






2. What milk products are avoided in the pyramid and not a good supply of calcium?






3. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






4. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






5. When does BMR increase?






6. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






7. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






8. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






9. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






10. How much grains are to be eaten per day?






11. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






12. This tool assesses each body system for nutrent excess or deficiency






13. Where can you get more vitamin D?






14. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






15. Name six sources of grains






16. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






17. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






18. How many calories/gram is protein?






19. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






20. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?






21. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






22. What is RDA of protein?






23. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






24. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






25. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






26. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






27. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






28. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems






29. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






30. What is normal BMI?






31. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






32. What does DASH stand for?






33. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






34. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






35. What function is vitamin A?






36. What are healthy sources of fats?






37. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






38. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






39. How much milk is to be consumed per day?






40. What is the function of vitamin E?






41. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






42. When does BMR decrease?






43. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






44. The higher the BMR a client has --






45. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






46. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






47. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






48. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






49. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






50. Sources of fats







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